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  1. Re:Depends on how you count on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 1

    Your bank may have less secure login methods than gmail, but Google doesn't have access to your bank account.

    yet.

  2. One difference on Why Gmail Has Better Security Than Your Bank · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Google is an IT company at the cutting edge of technology. Banks have an aging IT team working mainly on administrative tasks.

  3. Re:not really the whole story on JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast · · Score: 1

    Arrr I gave myself away - not a PHP pro ... Well....

  4. Re:not really the whole story on JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast · · Score: 1

    That makes : one.

  5. Re:Privacy concern on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Ok, everything is hackable, viewable etc... but the fingerprints for instance are voluntarily not transferred to Apple. So, someone may come and hack that - but that's a risk, not the same. If Apple makes the soft without transferring the info to their servers, voluntarily, that's a good start.

  6. Re:Sex tourist's dream... on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Until it goes wrong and doesn't work. This type of thing is a litigation nightmare. Looks like vaporware to me, and the actual legitimate applications seem few.

    Hopefully the folks working on the device favoured the false positives.

  7. Privacy concern on Smartphone Attachment Can Test For HIV In 15 Minutes · · Score: 1

    Is the tool able to determine by itself locally the outcome of the data, or does it send the data for analysis remotely? If it's the latter, there's a big privacy concern here.

  8. Re:not really the whole story on JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast · · Score: 1

    The problem is sometimes you don't even know the beginning of the function, eg is it number_format() or format_number() (or formatnumber etc...). Where can you find a hint when the whole language is inconsistent. it's impossible to follow a logic, a trend, PHP has so many inconsistencies nothing intuitive can be deduced from the existing funcs/structure... enjoy...

  9. Beauty of the photo, not the subject on The Algorithm That 'Sees' Beauty In Photographic Portraits · · Score: 3, Informative
    From TFA

    The good news for many of us is that that the visual qualities of the person in the photographic have little impact on the beauty of the resulting portrait. “We find that race, gender, and age are largely uncorrelated with photographic beauty,” Instead, many of the factors that do correlate with beauty relate to the technical quality of the image. “Aesthetic score is related to sharpness of facial landmarks, image contrast, exposure, homogeneity, illumination pattern, uniqueness, and originality,”

    So, no worries, here.

  10. Re:C is the best language on JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast · · Score: 1

    Because they're hard to find.

    Unfortunately a lot of the incompetent ones are experimenting with programming and proudly offer their babies as open source (e.g. a lot of the camera, multimedia stuff on Ubuntu).

  11. Re:C is the best language on JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast · · Score: 1

    printf(1+2+"3+4+5");

    You missed something:

    printf(1+2+"3+4+5"); // Insightful

  12. Re:haha - using your real name in China on New Chinese Regulations Require Real Name On Internet · · Score: 1

    Don't give them ideas. Someone will come up with a hash based on DNA. Hash collisions will be much less than names collisions.

  13. Re:not really the whole story on JavaScript, PHP Top Most Popular Languages, With Apple's Swift Rising Fast · · Score: 3, Funny

    What is the longevity of that code (beyond libraries)? Weeks? Months?

    Simple. Just peek one of the available functions/vars
    $longevity = PhpGetLongevity_days();
    $longevity = php_get_long_evity( IN_DAYS );
    $longevity = $_SERVER['longevity_days_from_server_variable'];
    $longevity = $OBJ.__what_isMyLongevity();

  14. Re:Sexist article on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 1

    Oh ok... was assuming everybody has Flashblock!

  15. Re:Priorities on Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash · · Score: 1

    Oh my.... Indeed!

  16. Re:Priorities on Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash · · Score: 0
    Breaking news

    Shortly after takeoff, one of the plane’s pilots sent a frantic message: “Mayday, Mayday, engine flameout.” A flameout is engine failure — when the fuel supply to the engine is interrupted or there is faulty combustion, Reuters reported.

    Doesn't look like a selfie is the cause of the crash. (Washington Post)

  17. Re:Sexist article on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sexist question: would you have clicked on the video if the girl wouldn't have been cute?

  18. Re:Why the fuck is there a video on Female-Run Companies Often do Better Than Male-Run Ones (Video) · · Score: 0

    And why the fuck does it auto-play when I open the article?

    Because you're the one /.er who doesn't have Flashblock.

  19. Not even a politician could have given more non-answers.

    It's more like the answers of a PR representative.

  20. Re:Priorities on Pilot's Selfies Could Have Caused Deadly Air Crash · · Score: 2
    Nevertheless,

    the NTSB concluded that "it is likely that cell phone use during the accident flight distracted the pilot and contributed to the development of spatial disorientation and subsequent loss of control."

    sounds like the NTSB was out of [relevant] options.

  21. Re:Fraud is ok as long as you are honest about it on Major Retailers Accused of Selling Fraudulent Herbal Supplements · · Score: 1

    But of course it's perfectly ok to sell fraudule...err, homeopathic "remedies" which do not and cannot work any different than a placebo.

    Well I take homeopathic pills anytime I feel hypoglycemia - that works!

  22. Re:Jupiter, Uranus, and Neptune also have rings. on Astronomers Find Vast Ring System Eclipsing a Distant Star · · Score: 1

    Earth will also have rings if men keep adding satellites all the time.

  23. Re:tl;dr on Systemd Getting UEFI Boot Loader · · Score: 3

    That thing gets bigger by the day. Isn't there some kind of anti-virus or some' to get rid of it?

  24. Do it! on Texas Boy Suspended For "Threatening" Classmate With the One Ring · · Score: 1

    The boy should really have used the ring power and made the other kid disappear. Nobody would have dared to expel him!

  25. Re:Still ARM11, still a crappy CPU on New Multi-Core Raspberry Pi 2 Launches · · Score: 1

    You got one already - element14?